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by air 12y ago
Libre isn't prerequisite either. Access to buildable source is.
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by air 13y ago
Unfortunately it doesn't. It's "Copyright (c) Microsoft Open Technologies", a Microsoft subsidiary it set up precisely to avoid licensing their patents when releasing GPL or Apache code.
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by air 13y ago
I assumed you thought scraping wikipedia and putting it on top of the search results was unethical. (The other alternative - that punishing scraper sites is unethical - seemed unlikely). So the fact that you prefer DDG because of this seeme
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by air 13y ago
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=scraper+site
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by air 13y ago
I don't think it has to go through MS legal yet. Nokia has to legally act as if the merge does not go through. If/when Microsoft will sell this phone, it will probably be through a subsidiary, just like it does currently all open
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by air 13y ago
MeeGo was the merge of Intel's Moblin and Nokia's Maemo.
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by air 13y ago
The graph on the same page shows that there is no collapse in the amount of ethnic Latvians in Latvia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ethnic_groups_in_Latvia.pn...
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by air 13y ago
Russians moving into the country during Soviet rule and moving out after it seem to explain the graph pretty well http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvian_Russians : The number of Russians in Latvia increased significantly
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by air 13y ago
User using multiple applications on a single phone is quite a lot more common use case than user using single application on several phones. I'd opt for making the common use case consistent.
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by air 13y ago
Debian seems to feel that way and is choosing between upstart and systemd http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=727708
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by air 13y ago
I think it's pretty clear when you read things like http://googleblog.blogspot.fi/2011/08/when-patents-attack-an...
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by air 13y ago
Replying to your edit: Yes, in the Motorola-Apple suit, Motorola was the aggressor and the bad guy. But when Google bought them, Apple had already counter-sued them. That's why I defined the aggressor between Google and Apple as one th
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by air 13y ago
You forget that Apple has their own patent suits against Motorola that they are not dropping. Ending the fight would mean that both drop their patent suits. Seems to me that GoogleMotorola wants this and Apple doesn't.
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by air 13y ago
Well, if you want to label good guys and bad guys, you need some rules to judge them with. In this case the moral code for me is that software patents are bad and whoever abuses them is in the wrong.
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by air 13y ago
Because Google bought Motorola after Motorola-Apple fight started, the aggressor is a bit more complicated, but still pretty clear cut to me: Whichever side that is not willing to end the patent fight (without payments to either side) is th
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by air 13y ago
I think separating good guys and bad guys is pretty simple, if one is against (at least software) patents: Using patents aggressively makes you a bad guy. Google has not done this, Microsoft and Apple have.
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by air 13y ago
I bet Google is very interested in stopping all patent lawsuits between Motorola and Apple, but Apple is not.
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by air 13y ago
But the patent fight was started by Microsoft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone_wars so Motorola are using them defensively.
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by air 13y ago
I don't think this thread is worth continuing. - GPLv2 is free software https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLv2 - If I take the Linux kernel 3.10.6 and create a piece of hardware that refuses to boot
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by air 13y ago
First of all, creating a new free software license does not alter the freeness of any software/license. GPLv3 incompatibility does not make software non-free, otherwise Linux kernel would not be free anymore. Second, the Tivoised BSD c
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by air 13y ago
That's a very misleading essay. "It is that, whereas free software is always also open source, open source software does not necessarily have to be free software. That is, software can be open source without granting its users the
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by air 13y ago
It does feel a bit funny, that a piece of text she did not write, present, or probably even read, is given as a reason to have her as a monarch. Seems like you would probably get on just fine with a fabricated character played by an actress
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by air 13y ago
It was not written by the queen. "The speech, devised by Whitehall officials at one of the most fraught Cold War periods..."
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by air 13y ago
Bradley Kuhn (who has worked for FSF for license stuff) says LGPL does not help. http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2012/11/22/vlc-lgpl.html
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by air 13y ago
"the Upstart init daemon (which pointlessly duplicated much of the work done in SystemD)" I think this chronological confusion sums up the insight that can be found from the article.
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by air 13y ago
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/gay-propagand...
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by air 13y ago
Yes, but deflationary currency discourages that sort of saving, because holding on to the currency works as an investment.
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by air 14y ago
Google is still supporting ActiveSync: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/01/gmail-...
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by air 14y ago
Monoculture means here that everyone is running the same implementation. Flash 11, Silverlight and Unity Web Player are all examples of that. Allowing opaque plugins encourages weakly specified technologies with just one defacto implementa
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by air 14y ago
This is the Motorola part of Google, which is being sued by both Apple and Microsoft, so it's still defensive.

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